The Red Green Show

The Red Green Show is a Canadian sketch comedy television show produced by Steve Smith and Rick Green. Smith stars as the titular character, Red Green, and the show also features many other characters.

Show-within-a-show
The main setting for The Red Green Show is the Possum Lodge, in which a television show by the same name is being produced. While the real show encompasses fictional characters and settings, the fictional show is structured as a fishing and handyman show in which Red is the star. most of the fishing and fixing, however, has been modified, or in most cases, ruined. The fictional show is produced and directed by Red's nephew Harold Green/Harold until the 10th season, when Harold leaves Possum Lodge to work at a company in Port Asbestos. These episodes usually end in misfortune, with a valuable [and quirky] life lesson learned such as "before making a sausage, make sure the intestine used is completely sterile." in this episode, there is a sausage making contest in the possum lake area, and red gets free hog guts to use as the liner. it isn't sterilized, though, and when they put it on the grill, it swells up to three times it's size, until Dalton Humphrey pokes it with a fork, and then it turns into more of as a cruise missile instead of a sausage. In most episodes, the plot of the fictional show is the same as that for the real show. However, in some episodes (particularly in the first season, where Harold is critical of Red's "boring" stories), the plot centers around the fictional show's production. For example, in The Network Deal, Harold attempts to line up a contract between the show and a major American television network, and in the pilot episode of the 8th season, Red agrees to start paying Harold for the show.